If you want to eat your breakfast in peace, make sure there isn't a conference taking place during your stay.
Sat down to eat breakfast, and over 100 people attending a conference at the crown Plaza overtook the restaurant, standing in groups, greeting and chatting to one another, surrounding our breakfast table, making it very unpleasant and hard to get to the breakfast items with all those people surrounding you. Overtaking the coffee machine taking food off the breakfast, even putting their mugs on our table and taking our sugar lumps off our table.
There should be a seperate area for conference goers to get their coffee, not the restaurant area where guests are trying to enjoy their breakfast.
I raised my unhappiness with a member of staff, and they tried to move them out of the way, to one end of the room, but they took no notice and continued milling around the breakfast tables.
I also told reception staff at check out that our whole breakfast experience had totally ruined our stay and it's not a nice experience trying to eat your breakfast with all that chaos surrounding you, and I was told the conference attendees were allowed to use the coffee machine!